Western Digital presents Red Pro with 26TB, its largest HDD WD for

Western Digital, also known as WD, introduced Red Pro this week, its latest 26TB HDD. This is the largest capacity that the company currently offers in the WD brand for Systems NA, and comes for the suggested price of $ 569. This is the equivalent of $ 3,322 in the current price.

WD Red Pro (WD260kfgx) uses sealing technology to helium for which the company is famous, as well as Optinand. According to the company, HDD reaches 7,200 rpm of rotation and uses second generation magnetic perpendicular recording, EPMR 2. In a more practical way, Western Digital promises performance around 272MB/s in the data transfer rate.

Obviously, it is a HDD for professional use, so it is also equipped with safety and durability technologies. Working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Red Pro is estimated to endure a load of 550tb per day. In addition, it is equipped with vibration sensors that serve to predict and counteract any vibrations of the system where the HDD is installed.

Similarly, it comes with sensors to detect impact events such as falls, and also try to compensate and reduce disk damage. WD offers a 5 -year warranty for the 26TB Red Pro.

WD Red Pro arrives again accompanied by, who uses another HDD

WD has announced in conjunction with Red Pro a new (Direct-ATTACHED SYSTEM). It is a storage set that employs one to eight HDDs. Drives also have 26TB of storage each, and can deliver up to 208TB of total capacity for the DAS.

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The curious part is that the system does not use Red Pro. Instead, it comes equipped with UltraStar DC HD590 units, which has the same capacity of 26TB. The most basic version of DAS, with only one drive like this, costs $ 650 ($ 3,795). It comes with an anodized aluminum office with stackable design.

Devices support RAID and the model with a maximum capacity of 208TB comes out for $ 8,300 ($ 48,468).

Via: Tom’s Hardware